The gut–islets axis connects nutrient sensing in the intestine with insulin secretion from the pancreas and plays an essential role in glucose regulation. GLP-1 released by intestinal L cells can ...

Peking University, August 29, 2025: Professor Deng Hongkui’s team from the Peking University School of Life Sciences recently made the first successful differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells ...

How do living cells respond to physical forces, including those relayed from the complex cellular and extracellular microenvironment within a tissue? We know that these forces affect nearly every ...

A new study by researchers at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in August 2020 ...

Scientists recently developed an efficient way to transplant pancreatic islets and demonstrated that the method can effectively reverse type 1 diabetes in nonhuman primates. In people with type 1 ...

The pancreas is a key metabolic regulator. When pancreatic beta cells cease producing enough insulin, blood sugar levels rise dangerously — a phenomenon known as hyperglycemia — thus triggering ...

New research to be presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Vienna, Austria (15–19 September) suggests that living in a rural environment ...

New protocol generated glucose-responsive SC-islets from eight hPSC lines tested, demonstrating potential for autologous applications.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Encellin, a biotechnology company developing a cell encapsulation platform with an initial focus on Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), announced the closing of a $9.9M financing ...

Professor Deng Hongkui's team from the Peking University School of Life Sciences has made the first successful differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into fully endocrine-subtype-complete ...